About the Book:About the Author: Alison Weber is an associate professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Teresa of Avila and the Rhetoric of Femininity. Amanda Powell is a senior instructor of Spanish at the University of Oregon. She is the translator of Untold Sisters: Hispanic Nuns in Their Own Words and coauthor of A Wild Country Out in the Garden: The Spiritual Journals of a Colonial Mexican Nun.